katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Oh right I forgot my cd drive only operates via paperclip

This is a world whose economy is partially built upon literal manifest gods, and partially built upon a magical capitalism (Craft) that's rapidly reshaping everything. Kai builds sub-sentient god-figures for the rich and powerful to use as financial instruments, and Teo is a potential client.

Also as a sidenote, Kai is my favorite trans character in fiction.

Okay so here's the scene from Full Fathom Five about creation myths that I've been talking about. It's so, so good.

https://pastebin.com/mfU3e39Q

@indi​ very kindly grabbed this scene from his ebook and took the extra step of editing out extraneous stuff and cutting it down to the main conversation.

Embrace the power of And. Material and non-material explanations for things are 100% non-exclusive. More than one thing can be true at a time.

"This isn't something humans are built to fully understand" is sometimes perfectly reasonable and useful theology, and sometimes a total cop-out.

And it can be hard to tell which is which.

@neonNeptunian these are all assessments I agree with :)

Hm, just realized I've never seen a jellyfish 'sona. I want to see that now :)

@Sparrow skin flappy! :D

Free Will doesn't exist because time is fake. Whatever. We have agency and subjectivity and those are way more important.

g'night.

@lizardsquid good suggestion thank you

I'm half-tempted to see if I can just immediately refinance with BECU, because they are decidedly not-shitty and I got the insurance check for the stolen car.

wtfff.

So when I was looking up the credit union the car dealership was offering a better loan with, I saw someone saying "hey it's $12 to make payments and that's bullshit". I asked the salesman about that, and he said "don't worry that's only for phone payments, it's free online".

Turns out the only free payments are for auto-pay. Everything else is $12. I don't want autopay since I plan on making more than minimum payments.

A commonly heard refrain in the let's play/instructional series I'm watching is "as we all know, trees are the real enemy."

There's something I find weirdly compelling about how Factorio is so unapologetic about the mission being to steamroll over vast swaths the native ecology and replace it with a giant automated megafactory.

@Efi Hi I appreciate this but in the future please ask before hugs.

Today's gonna be the day where I deal with most of the financial/bureaucratic stuff I've been putting off for the last couple weeks :D

Hey, all of your true forms are beautiful :)